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For a selected text, summarize the author’s main ideas, apply three criteria from the CRAAP Test to evaluate it, and explain how this text could be used. This essay makes use of one (1) resource minimum. Option 1: Text for your topic / question Summary of the text, including the author, title, and main argument and ideas (1 paragraph) Select 3 criteria from the CRAAP text and use them to evaluate the text (2-3 paragraphs) Explain how this text could be (or couldn’t be) used to answer your question and why (1-2 paragraphs) Option 2: Text from D2L Summary of the text, including the author, title, and main argument and ideas (1 paragraph) Select 3 criteria from the CRAAP text and use them to evaluate the text (2-3 paragraphs) Explain whether or not the author of this text makes a good case and why or why not (1-2 paragraphs) THE FINAL DRAFT Since you are writing about a text, make sure to start with the author and the title. To summarize, include the main ideas but not details, quotations, numbers, or smaller ideas. See the MLA packet for information on summarizing. Then evaluate the text, using three criteria from the CRAAP Test (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose) and evidence from the text itself. Cite the evidence and include a Works Cited page for your text. Conclude with an explanation about the usefulness of the text. Here are some things to review and include. • Your purpose is to both inform and persuade. You are explaining about a text but also making a case about a text’s potential use. • Your audience may or may not have read the text. Explain enough about it so that a reader understands what you’re saying. • For Option 1, make a case about how you would or would not use the text to answer your question and why. For Option 2, make a case about whether or not you buy the argument the text makes and why.